Indian nostril piercing - wikipedia


	Indian nostril piercing - wikipedia

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10-25-2007 10:51 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/e74b5798-7da4-4405-9d88-f6b56cb671dd/CC643654-B2B3-4D1C-BBB8-39DC982310D9/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nose_piercing&oldid=166043823" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nose_piercing&oldid=166043823" style="font-size: 11px;">en.wikipedia.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nose_piercing&oldid=166043823"><B>Nostril piercing</B> is a body piercing practice often associated with <A title="India" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India">India</A>. In North of India the outside of the left and in South India the outside of right <A title="Nostril" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nostril">nostril</A> is the preferred position of the piercing as this is supposed to make childbirth easier. This is because <A title="Ayurveda" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayurveda">Ayurvedic medicine</A> associates this location with the female reproductive organs <A rel="nofollow" title="http://www.navelring.com/information/nosepiercinginfo.htm" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.navelring.com/information/nosepiercinginfo.htm">[1]</A>.Nostril piercing was first performed in the Middle East about 4,000 years ago.<A rel="nofollow" title="http://www.navelring.com/information/nosepiercinginfo.htm" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.navelring.com/information/nosepiercinginfo.htm">[2]</A>. A nose ring was one of the gifts given to <A title="Rebekah" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebekah">Rebekah</A>, according to <A title="Genesis" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genesis">Genesis</A> 24:47. In India piercings were regarded as a mark of beauty and social standing as well as a Hindu's honor to the god Parvathi the goddess of marriage in the <A title="16th century" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/16th_century">16th century</A>.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/CC643654-B2B3-4D1C-BBB8-39DC982310D9/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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